>>reporter: there's no doubt abu dhabi has ambitious plans. the thing is though - it can afford to make them happen. but the question remains whether there is the demand or necessity to fill an industrial zone the size of singapore. >>reporter: natural disasters this year alone have had a devastating effect on countries in the asiapacific region not least for the loss of human life but also the economic impact. australia was hitby a double blow - the worst flooding in queensland in 37 years and then a cyclone - bigger than hurricane katrina. but australians are nothing if not resilient. >>reporter: the lucky country's good fortune ran out in january when the sunshine state was inundated with torrential rain and floods...and then cyclone yarsi whipped up the misery even further. >>scott: the rosalie area of brisbane was one of the worst hit by the floods. all of this was underwater. yet many of the businesses are now back, up and running but they couldn't have done it withoutthe help of an army of volunteers. yet they say the trade is still ver

abu faraj al libi was captured in 2005, he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza rabia was killed six months in pakistan, then came the longest-running al qaeda number three, abu laith al-libi. he was killed in january 2008. that gave sheikh al-masri his lead, after being killed, followed by, as we said, rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states, plenty to wonder there, but what is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting your al qaeda pension. [ male announcer ] for sore muscles use new bengay cold therapy. it'

abu zubaydah lasted longer, he lasted a lot longer in life. was captured in march of 2002 and now resides in guantanamo bay. he has been famously waterboarded 83 times. investigators determined he wasn't a number three, and according to "the washington post," not even a former member of al qaeda. next came khalid sheikh mohammed. who was captured in pakistan in march, 2003. he too is now a resident of guantanamo bay. abu faraj al libi served just over two years before getting captured in 2005. he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza rabia was killed six months in pakistan, then came the longest-running al qaeda number three, abu laith al libi. he was two years on the job before he was killed in january 2008. that gave sheikh al masri his lead before killed, after being killed, followed by, as we said, rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of

on saturday, abu salim said he held the door open as khamis got into an armored car. minutes later it was blown apart by an apparent missile strike and based on the young soldier's information rebels announced that khamis was dead. if qaddafi is holed up in sabha it will be hard for the rebels to get him but be he's a master of disinformation, likely to say he's going in one direction then heading off another to elude the rebels out to capture or kill him. >> pelley: thank you, barry. blues great david "honeyboy" edwards has died at his home in chicago. ♪ i'm a country man, i'm a country man ♪ lord, i just don't know right from wrong ♪ >> pelley: edwards was believed to be the last of the original delta bluesmen. he played guitar and sang with nearly all of the legends. edwards, who was 96 years old, was fond of saying "the world don't owe me nothing." we might just disagree. president obama explains to veterans why he changed a long- standing policy on presidential condolence letters. that story when we come back. >> pelley: the united states has been at war if afgha

"gadhafi looked calm" says abu salim. during a 15-minute meeting gadhafi hands over the control such as it is to khamis, there is an intense family farewell, a sister to her brother, a father to his son. from here, gadhafi with his daughter at his side became a deposed tyrant on the run. they left the compound in a group of suvs while the fighting was still going on and headed south. abu salim's commander told him gadhafi was headed for sabha, where he can use strong tribal ties and the vast desert for protection. it's a familiar hideout for him. it's where he fled after the u.s. bombing in 1986. on saturday, abu salim said he held the door open as khamis got into an armored car. minutes later the car was blown up in a missile strike. based upon the young soldier's information, rebels announced that khamis was dead. if gadhafi is holed up in sabha it will be hard for the rebels to get at him but he is a master of disinformation. it's entirely possible he said he was going off in one direction and went off in another to el

in fact, abu dhabi and markets are quite substantially up, both in dubai and abu dhabi. think one thing investors in the government and region are looking at is something we haven't gotten into to much in this program is the oil price. the oil price. that's something we'll look at. if you remember in previous crises, all prices have gone up sharply along with gold. today you've got gold going up and oil going down which i think is of a great worry to this region. >> okay. so let's unpack that a little bit. the middle east markets could be hit by a slumping oil price and essentially the end of the boon that we saw in some gulf states. >> well, i think certainly the high oil price has been the one redeeming factor of this global recession that we had for the past couple of years and certainly for this -- i'm talking obviously from the point of view from the middle east and exporters who have benefitted lately from the high oil price. now, if the one redeeming factor, the oil price were to slip away, that would certainly cause a lot of concern and potentially financial inst

abu salim hospital is one vast and chaotic mortuary. there are bodies everywhere, mostly men of fighting age, but i have seen two bodies of children, and i've counted at least 75 thus far. there is no doubt the anti- qaddafi rebels have prevailed in abu salim. but today, in this awful place, we saw at what cost. >> lehrer: ray suarez takes the story from there. he talked earlier today with itn's lindsey hilsum in tripoli. >> welcome back to the program. is there progression on the ground from the point of view of the rebels? have they been able to secure areas, bring in essential supplies, do something like consolidation in the areas they control? >> i think that there has been progress. certainly over this week. we've seen tripoli become calmer. there's still some talk of fighting, still a few snipers. but i've been traveling around every day since monday and more and more neighborhoods are secure. what seems to be happening is that you've got like neighborhood committees. these are young men and sometimes older men. and they stand on

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some were taken by soldiers as souvenirs like most of the abu great pictures. some were autopsy photographs and others taken in the process of criminal investigation of the abuse by our government and the aclu and others sued under the freedom of information act to get access to these and released photographs. the administration argued, opposed the request. the obama administration oppose the request saying the pictures could, quote, in flame anti-american sentiment around world and said the pictures would invade prisoners's privacy. the government lost in the trial court on appeal. the court of appeals said the fear of danger to troops or americans abroad was vague and speculative. there wasn't any showing of actual danger to any particular person or target or place or who would do what to whom and the potential violation of prisoners privacy was not a strong or valid reason to keep the photographs secret. obama caved in initially saying the court has spoken. we won't take it to the supreme court. and then apparently he looked at the pictures and changed his m

john defterios joins us live from abu dhabi. it does seem there's a willingness to get the money to the rebels fair li quickly, john. >> this is a case with the money keeping pace with the change on the ground in libya, especially tripoli. let's take a look at what's at stake here. talked about initial transfer of money of $2.5 billion they're hoping to get released at the meetings taking place this evening. that's part of the $10 billion being held right now over all libyan assets. we know the uprising started six months ago. the asset freeze really started kicking in four months ago. two-thirds of the funds are being held by the governments of the u.s., u.k. and germany. the frirs tranche of money is supposed to be released shortly, $1.5 billion by the united states. let's listen. >> the u.s. government has taken honorable steps and very welcome steps of releasing about $1.5 billion of frozen assets, and the legal work is being completed to that end. this will be very helpful for the first injection so as to get us off the gro

he is live from abu dab i. john, looking at this from a best case scenario, how long will it take to get libyan oil back on-line? >> in fact, as charles noted. before the crisis 1.6 million a day. in peaked at 1.8 million a day. we're talking in the next quarter or by the end of the year, get row ducks about a third of that, 400,000 to 500,000 is what the arab arabian country is saying. the tenth largest oil reserves in the world. the big bonanza is the future. we'll talk about that in a moment. the idea here is to ascertain the damage, the. it's the real challenge right now. quite frankly, it's too insecure to go back in and make that assessment. the fields outside of tripoli, we understand, are not that damaged. the basin. they say they need three to four weeks after the fighting stops to make the assessment and then try to get that production up to 400,000 to 500,000 barrels a day. this is far off that peak of 1.8 million as we asserted. >> you were saying there is an enormous amount of potential in libya fo

response to the news that crumb abu dhabi's wife and three of these children have fled to algeria from libya. gaddafi supporters have reason to reconsider their loyalty. we spoke to the locals to find out. >> the green flags of colonel gaddafi wants to prod year. -- once flew probably here. this is a new rebel checkpoint. the supporters put up a fight here. you can see it on the buildings. the fires are still burning here. you can actually tasted. you can also feel the tensions as well. this was one of the last places in tripoli to fall. look at this market that lies in ruins. they saw some of the fiercest fighting of this war in tripoli. >> i used to support him. >> what changed your mind? >> i saw the truth. i saw the truth of our leader. >> what was the truth? >> he is not the right leader for libya. he said, i am a strong enough to protect you from anything. >> the attacks strength and some loyalty. >> he wanted to show us the destruction. >> we are all supporters of gaddafi year. no one can say that because we will be taken away here. >> there will be no revenge killings. do you b

each day members of abu cutting family have to bring it from a nearby village even then and so only fifa drinking after it has been boiled. at the water is turn kilometers away. bring fifty cans of water by will barrel sometimes or get a donkey to do the hauling it makes the job easier what the. locals in the village of can do chey entergy is down south have built a water reservoir children of the most frequent visitors here there's a vision in this country is that the children i would judy supply their households with water. and the account here for what eric. yes. each morning. people fill up their pails and cans while animals use the reservoir as a watering hole. there is certain warriors in poor condition because too many villagers come here from all over it to take order it will have to be fixed again when spring comes around. since independence came twenty years ago that is town's water supply systems have fallen into disrepair today the government earmarks funds for the construction of water pipelines local businessmen to have been attempting to build some but the problem still pe

the group abu accuses avalon of hiring nonunion workers many of whom are from outside the city. >> they are in our community, they hire people from everywhere other than san francisco. so we have a problem with that. >> reporter: protesters say they plan to keep up the protest. avalon has not yet responded for our request for comment. >>> a bay area woman is putting out a help wanted sign -- a bay area company is putting out the help wanted sign. autoban says it will hire 300 new employees in san francisco. >>> a martinez petroleum company agreed to reach a settlement over their storage system. the company will pay at least $3 million to the effected counties over five years. >>> their deportation documents had already been signed so what saved two members of an east bay family from being forced to leave tonight? >>> also an anti b.a.r.t. protester is in legal trouble for more than exercising free speech. the simple item he was carrying that police say could have caused serious damage. >>> back here in 10 minutes, i have your forecast for tomorrow and it includes some cool fog moving in

explained -- i'm looking at the excerpt printed this morning in the "wall street journal" relative to abu zabaida, but if it credited it did work with regard to zabida. >> the officer that came interrogated him, came out and said it didn't work. he'd got the information before the waterboarding occurred. the fbi pulled out of waterboarding, afraid it was ineffective and illegal. we've got two parts of the government arguing over this, someone has to sit down and truly look at the evidence and see who's right. >> here's what the former vice president said in his book. as a matter of fact, he pointed to two instances he maintains waterboarding had a huge impact on u.s. intelligence. with enhanced techniques became a found of information. the preeminent source on al qaeda according to the 2004 report. ksm had become key in the al u.s. understanding of al qaeda plots and personalities. by that account, it worked. >> yeah. and i think it's important to understand a couple things. one is that waterboarding is one method of, one enhanced interrogation methods. there's a lot of other ones. the re

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a short distance away indeed abu salim district, rebels are still hunting for snipers' nests.igger threat could be still ahead. that was the answer. [gunfire] soon, a full-scale street battle. [gunfire] the fighters were dangerously exposed. they brought out their improvised big guns. and there rocket-propelled grenades. >> they believe colonel gaddafi's troops are just a distance of this road. they are trying to push forward. >> for about an hour, we were pinned down. then it was time to make a getaway. the rebels were running low on ammunition. we escaped with two bullet holes in our car. this was just one pocket of resistance. who knows how many more there maybe? the rebels are tightening their grip here, but in the capital, these are still dangerous days. bbc news, tripoli. >> this is a student who lives near martha's square in tripoli. i asked her what the streets were like in the capitol this morning. >> it was quite quiet, to be honest. i am not really used to the quietness. there are not any gun shots. we have not have that for six months. >> why do you think it has ca

one of their big partners when they're working in this neighborhood is abu. we are working closely with them. i want to give a shout out to them. we want to see more local residents getting work. [applause] and then the rest is up to us, dpw, working with the library. the guy that will be working day to day with freddie, our resident engineer, garland wong. he will be living here and will not sleep until this library is done. he is supported by several wonderful people. lina chen is managing all of these projects. [applause] i also wanted knowledge of our other local hire, deputy director, muhammed nuru. always working for the baby. we are honored to be able to work on this for our community, who is so deserving and has been so patient. we are going to get people to work in the process and we are all going to be very happy here at the ribbon cutting and a little bit over by year. [applause] >> i think you can all see a pattern. this is all about local ownership. thank you for making this happen. i want to acknowledge and invite to the podium the leader of our

these are lists of media organizations, cnn, abu dhabi. there is an exit here, a small little porthole that leads outside. the network of tunnels extends for miles. our colleague stephanie gosk saw more. >> there's electricity, there are telephones, it's even wide enough for golf carts that gadhafi used to rides around all the time. it's not clear if he used this one, but he will not be using one any time soon. these stairs lead up from the tums, it must lead up somewhere into gadhafi's house. but it tells how paranoid he was, clearly they sealed it off for security. >> reporter: the tunnels may have helped gadhafi escape, but now with a bounty on his head, it seems every rebel in libya is looking for him. richard engel, nbc news, tripoli. >>> when we come back, back here in this country, an update on our top story, getting ready for what could be and it's no longer an overstatement, the most devastating storm a lot of people along the east coast have ever seen. >>> an update tonight, we want to update you on the arrival of hurricane irene

rixos hotel qaddafi himself perhaps fled from his compound through one of his underground tunnels the abu salim area to the south of the city seems to be where his followers are making their last stand. this afternoon smoke and the sound of gunfire from abu salim while qaddafi's only daughter aisha appealed by telephone to a tv station based in syria for libyans to rally round her father to stop libya from becoming another iraq rally around her father, to stop libya from becoming another iran. this is rebel footage of one of the colonel's leading bodyguards who's been captured. "where is qaddafi" the rebels where is qaddafi the rebels are heard asking him and he shrugs in reply. perhaps the prospect of a $1.3 million reward will provide some clues. >> brown: the human cost of the civil war is mounting. and the continued fighting is bringing more casualties to hospitals. james mates of "independent television news" has that part of the story from tripoli. >> reporter: just inside the main gates of qaddafi''s compound of bab al aziziya the battle is not over-- far from it. shortly, before w

the rebels thought they had an idea earlier this afternoon in the neighborhood of abu salim. this is a neighborhood that's very close to gadhafi's compound, and the suspicion was that his officers and perhaps even gadhafi himself and his sons escaped through tunnels and actually found themselves in that neighborhood. there was a heavy gun battle there today, and there are rumors circling around that gadhafi himself was there. so far, that's proven to be untrue. there were other fights around the city as well. there was a gun battle at one of the hotels here in town that used to be run by the government. the owner is said to be quite a gadhafi loyalist, and there are a number of western journalists there. we've known this was going to happen. it's a real statement on the fact that this city right now is not stable, and it's not going to be stable for some time to come. we are going to see these pockets of fighting over the next few days, and the hunt for gadhafi is certainly on. if they find him in this city, there could be quite a battle. >> stephanie, gadhafi has again warne

information from abu led to the capture of ksm after questioned with enhanced techniques became a fontinformation. the preeminent source on al qaeda according to the 2004 report. ksm had become key in the al qaeda plots and personalities. by that account, it worked. >> yeah. and i think it's important to understand a couple things. one is that waterboarding is one method of, one enhanced interrogation methods. there's a lot of other ones. did we use any methods, or do we only ask po literally for cooperation? it's important we use some enhanced interrogation methods. only three individuals, exactly three, were ever waterboarded. one of them, as you say, was khalid sheikh mohammed, our most important source on al qaeda after he was waterboarded, including among other thing as plot calmed the second wave meant to knock down the largest building in los angeles, and so i think the evidence there suggests that had we not used enhanced interrogation techniques including waterboarding on sheikh mohammed, los angeles would be the size of new york city. the other go ask is one of common sense.

. >> what happened here at the abu saleem hospital over the past four days is one of the most terrible incidents of this entire revolution. doctors have come in from across tripoli to help out. we were told that like the doctors, we'd have to wear surgical masks inside for our own safety. the hospital staff here all ran away days ago because of the fighting. but seriously injured people kept being brought in, dozens of them, perhaps a hundred all together. here they died of their injuries, entirely untreated.ñr the stench of death is overpowering. far too strong for the feeble efforts of this volunteer with this air freshener. the floor is thick with blood. the scene which took place here helps you defy imagination. he warned colonel qaddafi picture smiles down over the horror. we certainly can't show you the pictures in this room because they're too horrible. i have got to wear three of these surgical masks and even so the stench is absolutely nauseating. when you walk along the corridor, have you to be really careful because there's blood everywhere and you can slip over so easily. t

i am joined by the director of the abu dhabi center. i will talk about the lives of muslim americans in a second. but first, mubarak's trial -- how important is it for patching up the disunity in egypt now? >> this trial is extremely important. 75% of egyptians say they need to see mubarak go on trial, and believe this is an essential part of completing the revolution. i think having him go on trial will give people some closure. >> do you think it will bring the factions together? >> i do. this brought them together on january 25. i think it can bring them together again. it is important to step back and look at egypt. just like any society, there are lots of voices and avers views. different people have different views. that is essential as a characteristic of democracy and should not surprise or scare us. >> let us turn to the work of your center that you have been doing, this huge pall of muslim americans. tell us what the headlines were. >> one of the most interesting things is that muslim americans are the most likely in the unite